Visual background information modulates motor contagions in humans.

ABSTRACT: Motor contagions refer to implicit effects induced by the observation of actions made by others on one's own actions. A plethora of studies conducted over the last two decades have demonstrated that both observed and predicted actions can induce various kinds of motor contagions in a human observer. However, motor contagions have always been investigated with regard to different features of an observed action, and it remains unclear whether the background environment in which an observed action takes place modulates motor contagions as well. Here, we investigated participant movements in an empirical hand steering task during which the participants were required to move a cursor through a visual channel after being presented with videos of an actor performing the same task. We manipulated

SUBMITTER: Saito H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11322384 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature